Angular pass input variable to another component on button click

Question

I come from a Python background, but I started trying to learn Angular and I'm really having trouble. Working between components is confusing to me and I can't figure it out. I made a good example that I think if someone helped me with it would go along way towards understanding Angular.

I just have two components: a "header" component and an app component. In the header component, I ask for the user's name and they click a button, and then it should show "Hello {{name}}" in the next component. I cannot get it to work to say the least and it's really frustrating. The Header part seems to work okay, but it's just not communicating with the other component at all. Neither the button part or the "name" part are working so I am clearly misunderstanding something I need to do when it comes to listening from the parent component.

Here is my Header HTML:

Name: <input type="text" id="userInput" value="Joe">

<button (click)=showName()>Show More</button>

Here is my Header TS:

import { Component, OnInit, Output, EventEmitter } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-header',
  templateUrl: './header.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./header.component.css']
})
export class HeaderComponent implements OnInit {
  bodyDiv = false;
  inputName = '';
  @Output() buttonClicked = new EventEmitter();

  constructor() { }

  ngOnInit() {
  }
  showName() {
    console.log('showName clicked.');
    this.bodyDiv = true;
    this.inputName = document.getElementById('userInput').value;
    console.log(this.inputName);
    console.log(this.bodyDiv);
    this.buttonClicked.emit(this.bodyDiv);
    this.buttonClicked.emit(this.inputName);
  }
}

Here is the main Component's HTML:

<app-header (buttonClicked)='showNextComponent($event)'></app-header>

<p *ngIf="![hiddenDiv]" [inputName]="name">Hello {{ name }} </p>

Here is the main component's TS:

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
})
export class AppComponent {
  hiddenComponent = true;
  title = 'show-button';

  showNextComponent() {
    console.log('Button clicked.');
    this.hiddenComponent = false;
    console.log(this.hiddenComponent);
  }
}

So who can show me what I'm doing wrong and help figure out Angular a little better? :) Thank you!

Answer 1

replace showName function with below code :

showName() {
    console.log('showName clicked.');
    this.bodyDiv = true;
    this.inputName = document.getElementById('userInput').value;
    console.log(this.inputName);
    console.log(this.bodyDiv);
    this.buttonClicked.emit(this.inputName);
  }

replace below code in your main component.

name:string
showNextComponent(value:string) {
    this.name = value;
  }

replace below code in your html :

<app-header (buttonClicked)='showNextComponent($event)'></app-header>

<p *ngIf="name">Hello {{ name }} </p>

Please let me if you have any question and I would suggest try to use ngmodel or something else instead of directly communicating with the DOM.

Answer 2

Here is a slightly modified and working sample: https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-jhhctr

The event emitter in the header component emits the name (string) which is the $event in showNextComponent($event). You have to capture this in the main component and assign it to a local variable to be able to use it in the main component's template as {{name}}

[inputName]="name" is incorrect. You can pass values like that to angular components not to actual HTML DOM elements.